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...group, besides Fisher, will be made up of the four delegates to the Chicago conference, held at the end of last year, and will include Douglass Cater '46, Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. '47, Eugene A. Dinet, Jr. '44, and Andrew G. Rice...
HENRY ADAMS AND His FRIENDS (797 pp.)-edited by Harold Dean Cater-Houghton Mifflin...
Editor Harold Dean Cater's title is one way of saying that petulant, sardonic little (5 ft. 4 in.) Adams, for all his quirks and squints, had many friends. His red brick Richardsonian mansion on Washington's H Street, completed, after his wife's death in 1885, was often full of guests (said he: "I run a hotel"). Childless himself, he took great interest in his nieces & nephews, and played "Uncle Henry" and year-round Santa Claus to other youngsters, especially those of his crony, Secretary of State John...
...died in bed in 1918. Most of those years, after his marriage in 1872, were bitter ones. One point at last made clear in this volume is that Marian Hooper Adams, his ailing wife, did not die from natural causes; she killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design, a memorial for her grave.* Adams tried to lose...
...Chicago the Harvard delegates played an important part: Clifton Wharton was elected Secretary of the Continuations Committee, and S. Douglass Cater was a skillful chairman of one of the four panels. They can look back on a good job, and forward to the first student organization in American history that will be controlled by students, and not by student factions...